Sep 01
Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments: I would sell Boy to the slavers to get my hands on an “Official” Ape-English Dictionary.
Published 1964
(Average: 6.25 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: I would sell Boy to the slavers to get my hands on an “Official” Ape-English Dictionary.
Published 1964
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September 1st, 2022 at 4:39 pm
Tarzan – now with Grecian 2000!
September 1st, 2022 at 4:52 pm
Has to be a tie in with the Mike Henry Tarzan.
Oook Oook.
September 1st, 2022 at 4:58 pm
Only AN Official Ape-English Dictionary?
I’m holding out for THE Official Ape-English Dictionary.
Cheeta-approved.
September 1st, 2022 at 5:10 pm
Tarzan por-kalan yang.
Ape-English Dictionary
September 1st, 2022 at 5:11 pm
The dictionary would come in handy in case Bela Lugosi ever met a Brooklyn gorilla.
But I think an Ape-German dictionary would be a lot more fun. “Raus mit der ungawa!”
And an Ape-Swedish dictionary would be an absolute scream.
September 1st, 2022 at 5:42 pm
One Cheetah-Vucan neck pinch coming up
September 1st, 2022 at 6:24 pm
I prefer my Tarzan novels dubbed, not subbed.
@Francis Boyle: the barber seems to have missed his right forearm.
September 1st, 2022 at 10:02 pm
“Cheetah make damn fine coffee.”
September 1st, 2022 at 11:02 pm
@Francis Boyle, @Bruce A Munro: Hmmm yes, a little too well “manscaped” and bejeweled for a guy who’s supposed to be living in a tree… Maybe this is the Weekend Warrior Tarzan version…
September 1st, 2022 at 11:30 pm
@Tat, I couldn’t quote place it, but you nailed it.
September 2nd, 2022 at 12:51 am
Tarzan of the Macy’s Parade balloons. Because those arms and shoulders aren’t in the right position to be actually holding him on that vine.
September 2nd, 2022 at 1:32 am
The hatched shading is terrible.
Everyone has a good point: Tarzan is awfully well-groomed for someone living in a jungle with apes. Is this after he meets Jane and she sets up a jungle spa, featuring waxing?
Cheeta is definitely plotting something.
@Tat: Took me a second, but I got it. I bet Cheeta can’t make a cherry pie, though. The parrots are not what they seem.
September 2nd, 2022 at 1:55 am
Cheeta looks a bit young to be off on a Jungle Adventure? But then he was usually played by a juvenile in the movies: much less likely than an adult chimp to bite off an actor’s nose in a fit of pique.
September 2nd, 2022 at 12:49 pm
@Bruce A Munro
Maureen O’Sullivan gave some accounts of the chimp they used in the films being mad keen on Johnny Weismuller and a pain to work with for anybody else, hard as it might be to credit.
September 2nd, 2022 at 4:24 pm
I tried reading the book, but abandoned it early when I could not get past how it described gorillas. I am sure they new very little about them in the early 20th century, but having the having the alpha gorilla be described as being particularly big at 250 pounds (adult males average 350-400 pounds) and murderously violent (as opposed to just wanting to hang at the salad bar) was just too jarring. Though I suppose it would have been a boring book if the only thing Tarzan had learned from the apes was how to park his ass and gorge on leaves and fruit.
September 2nd, 2022 at 5:04 pm
Little known fact: before he hit it big as an actor, Kyle MacLachlan was a SciFi/Fantasy Cover boy.
September 2nd, 2022 at 7:07 pm
Come to think of it, I’m not sure the Tarzan books _had_ chimpanzees: they had (inaccurately presented, as @driemaster points out) gorillas, and Tarzan’s “apes”, which had little in common with any actual primates. (Philip J Farmer, in his multi-crossover stories with Tarzan, Doc Savage, etc. had them as some sort of early hominin, like a beefed-up australopithecine.)
September 2nd, 2022 at 7:52 pm
@Bruce: yeah, they were a kind of ape not known to science, but they had a language that they spoke, so — not chimps or gorillas. Farmer probably had the right idea.
September 7th, 2022 at 3:35 am
I want to point out the scarlet macaw flying in the background is native to South America, not Africa. If any one cares.
January 13th, 2023 at 10:33 pm
I had this one when I was a kid. You don’t really notice how bad that cover art is when you’re 10. 😉